Quotes to Identify the Great Gatsbyname______

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Quotes to Identify—The Great GatsbyName______

4/1/12—Please identify the persons or things referred to in these passages. Have your answers ready at the beginning of class on Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

Nick CarrawayDaisy BuchananTom BuchananJordan Baker

Myrtle WilsonCatherineGeorge WilsonMr. McKee

Mrs. McKeeJay GatsbyOwl-eyed manKatspaugh

Meyer WolfsheimKlipspringerPammyDr. T.J. Eckleburg

MichaelisHenry C. Gatz

1.“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me . . . . When I came back from the East last autumn I . . . wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, . . . was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn . . . . there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life . . . .—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person . . . “ (2). Who is speaking? ______

2.“His speaking voice, a gruff, husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked” (7). Who is being described? ______

3.“She laughed again, as if she had said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had” (9-10). Who is being described? ______

4.She“began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found it difficult to forget” (10). Who is being described? ______

5.“. . . he gave a sudden intimation that he wanted to be alone. He stretched out his arms toward the water in a curious way, and far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (20-21). Who is being described?______

6.“The eyes . . . are blue and gigantic—their [irises] . . . one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose” (23). Who is being described?______

7.“He was a blond, spiritless man, anemic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes” (25). Who is being described?______

8.She “was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty, with a solid, sticky bob of red hair, and a complexion powdered milky white. Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face” (30). Who is being described?______

9.“With the influence of the dress, her personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air” (30). Who is being described?______

10.“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistibleprejudice in your favor” (48). Who is being described? ______

11.She “instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest” (57-58). Who is being described? ______

12.“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (59). Who is speaking? ______

13.“’It’s pretty, isn’t it, old sport!’ He jumped off to give me a better view. ‘Haven’t you seen it before?’ . . . . It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town” (64). What is being described? ______

14.“’I see you’re looking at my cuff buttons’ . . . . ‘Finest specimen of human molars,’ he informed me” (72). Who is speaking? ______

15.“Wild rumors were circulating about her—how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New York and say good-by to a soldier who was going overseas. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks” (75). Nick is narrating, but who is telling the original story? ______

16.“He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue” (92). Whose shirts are being described?______

17.“’Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly” (120). Who is speaking? ______

18.“I just got wised up to something funny the last two days” . . . The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn’t alighted on Tom. . . . I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before . . . “(124). Who “got wised up”? ______

19.“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade” (135). Who is speaking? ______

20.“The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption—and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by” (154). Who are the “faces”?______Who is “he”?______

21. I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him: “’I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you--’” (164). Who is speaking? ______

22.“Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it” (173).

Who is being described?______Who is speaking? ______

23.“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people,

. . . they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (179). What pair of people is Nick describing?______

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24.“As the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder” (180). What is being described?______Who is speaking? ______

25.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (180). Who is speaking? ______What does the sentence mean?______